Why Teach ICT?

Induction Module

ICT for StudyingResearch, References, Word, PowerPoint, Moodle, BlogFolio

ICT for teachingVLEs, Presenting, IWBs, Resources, Web 2.0

ICT for learningE-learning, E-safety, Multimedia, Games, Thinking

Finding things out

Making things happen

Exchanging and sharing information

Reviewing, modifying and

evaluating work

EYFS

“By the end of EYFS, children should…

Find out about and identify the uses of everyday technology and use information and communication technology and programmable toys to support their learning”

Key Stage 1

Key Stage 2

Why teach ICT?How should we

teach ICT?Creative play with

technologyMeaningful learning

and ICTFinding things out

on the web

Video and the reflective practitioner (T&L)

Creating interactive whiteboard resources (English)

Communicating ideas with image technology (Art)

Evaluating resourcesDeveloping resourcesGames and

programming

Wikis (English)Blogs (English)

ICT and Foundation Subjects

Directed tasks (ICT, Art)Assessed work (Teaching and Learning, English)Portfolio for Year 3

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To research more effectively; better communication skills; more efficient use of existing software skills

@simonkellis

Industry is screaming for ICT 'professionals' not ICT 'users'

@teraknor

It’s Interesting, Creative and Transformative! It's also relevant, bridges generation gaps and is future focused and driven!

@clareire

To connect us with the global community and enable children to be passionate about its potential to develop for the future

@dawnhallybone

It’s the only truly innovative subject - new resources produced every day

@goodallict

Because it is the most exciting, magic & possibly even life changing subject in the curriculum!

@janewoods3

We all need to communicate, technology offers amazing ways to connect and be citizens

@stevebunce

It’s about speaking the language of your learners and meeting them where they are!

@TESict

It allows the teacher to be a life long learner

@BobToms100

‘cos at the mo it’s still a NC subject

@billgibbon

Information and communication technology (ICT) prepares pupils to participate in a rapidly changing world in which work and other activities are increasingly transformed by access to varied and developing technology. Pupils use ICT tools to find, explore, analyse, exchange and present information responsibly, creatively and with discrimination. They learn how to employ ICT to enable rapid access to ideas and experiences from a wide range of people, communities and cultures. Increased capability in the use of ICT promotes initiative and independent learning, with pupils being able to make informed judgements about when and where to use ICT to best effect, and to consider its implications for home and work both now and in the future.

DfES/QCA 1999

With scientific method, we took things apart to see how they work. Now with computers we can put things back together to see how they work, by modelling complex, interrelated processes, even life itself. This is a new age of discovery, and ICT is the gateway.

Douglas Adams, Author

To argue against the importance of ICT in the primary curriculum is to ignore the increasing digitisation of information worldwide. This will require digital literacy of all children for their full participation in society.... In all branches of knowledge, all professions and all vocations, the effective use of new technologies will be vital. Children not only need to learn to use specific devices and applications, they also need to understand the fundamental concepts of safe and critical use.

Sir Jim Rose, 2009

Young people have huge appetites for the computing devices they use outside of school. Yet ICT and Computer Science in school seem to turn these young people off. We need school curricula to engage them better if the next generation are to engineer technology and not just consume it

Matthew Harrison, Royal Academy of Engineering, 2010